Groove : : an aesthetic of measured time / / Mark Abel.

• Superior document: Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume 73
• VerfasserIn: Abel, Mark, 1948-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Historical materialism book series ; Volume 73.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (283 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

What is the relationship between music and time? How does musical rhythm express our social experience of time? In Groove: An Aesthetic of Measured Time , Mark Abel explains the rise to prominence in Western music of a new way of organising rhythm: groove. He provides a historical account of its emergence around the turn of the twentieth century, and analyses the musical components which make it work. Tracing the influence of key philosophical arguments about the nature of time on musical aesthetics, Mark Abel draws on materialist interpretations of art and culture to challenge those, like Adorno, who criticise popular music’s metrical regularity. He concludes that groove does not simply reflect the temporality of contemporary society, but, by incorporating abstract time into its very structure, is capable of effecting a critique of it.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Meaning of Musical Time -- 1 What is ‘groove’? -- 2 Is Groove African? -- 3 Bergsonism and Unmeasurable Time -- 4 Schutz’s ‘Vivid Present’ and the Social Time of Music -- 5 Adorno and Reified Time -- 6 Meter, Groove and the Times of Capitalism -- 7 History, Modernism, and the Time of Music -- References -- Index.